What does it look like when a civil engineer turns a company into a platform for community change? For Selena Rodgers Dickerson, president of SARCOR LLC, the Amazon Accelerate and Empower Program (Amazon A&E) arrived as she prepared to scale. Delivered through ICIC’s Connections initiative with Amazon, Arctaris Impact Investors, and Regions Bank, Amazon A&E helped Selena step back from daily tasks and into her role as CEO.  Through executive education, cohort learning, and a capstone pitch event at Miles College, she refined her growth strategy, engaged her leadership team, and clarified how her ventures focus on building people, places, and possibilities.  In this story, Selena shares how an eleven year old on stage, a legacy of entrepreneurial parents, and two ICIC programs, ICCC and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, are shaping her next chapter. Read More